[II-66] This Khanukh was the progenitor of the Wolf family of the Thlinkeets even as Yehl was that of the Raven family. The influence of this wolf-deity seems to have been generally malign, but except in connection with this water-legend, he is little mentioned in the Thlinkeet myths.
[II-67] 'Seit der Zeit, entgegnete Khanukh, als von unten die Leber herauskam.' _Holmberg_, _Ethn. Skiz._, p. 61. What is meant by the term 'die Leber,' literally the particular gland of the body called in English 'the liver,' I cannot say; neither Holmberg or any one else, as far as my knowledge goes, attempting any explanation.
[II-68] _Barrett-Lennard's Trav._, pp. 54-7; _Holmberg_, _Ethn. Skiz._, pp. 14, 52-63; _Baer_, _Stat. u. Ethn._, pp. 93-100; _Dall's Alaska_, pp. 421-22; _Macfie's Vanc. Isl._, pp. 452-5; _Richardson's Jour._, vol. i., p. 405; _Mayne's B. C._, p. 272.
[II-69] _Baer_, _Stat. u. Ethn._, p. 116; _Lisiansky's Voy._, pp. 197-8; _Dall's Alaska_, p. 405; _Holmberg_, _Ethn. Skiz._, p. 140.
[II-70] _Choris_, _Voy. Pitt._, pt. vii., p. 7; _Kotzebue's Voy._, vol. ii., p. 165.
[II-71] _Dunn's Oregon_, pp. 102, _et seq._; _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 173; _Mackenzie's Voy._, p. cxviii.; _Franklin's Nar._, vol. i., pp. 249-50.
[II-73] _Keightley's Myth. of Ancient Greece and Italy_, p. 14.
SUN, MOON, AND STARS -- ECLIPSES -- THE MOON PERSONIFIED IN THE LAND OF THE CRESCENT -- FIRE -- HOW THE COYOTE STOLE FIRE FOR THE CAHROCS -- HOW THE FROG LOST HIS TAIL -- HOW THE COYOTE STOLE FIRE FOR THE NAVAJOS -- WIND AND THUNDER -- THE FOUR WINDS AND THE CROSS -- WATER, THE FIRST OF ELEMENTAL THINGS -- ITS SACRED AND CLEANSING POWER -- EARTH AND SKY -- EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES -- MOUNTAINS -- HOW THE HAWK AND CROW BUILT THE COAST RANGE -- THE MOUNTAINS OF YOSEMITE.
Fetichism seems to be the physical philosophy of man in his most primitive state. He looks on material things as animated by a life analogous to his own, as having a personal consciousness and character, as being severally the material body that contains some immaterial essence or soul. A child or a savage strikes or chides any object that hurts him, and caresses the gewgaw that takes his fancy, talking to it much as to a companion.